L K Advani's prediction of a non-Congress, non-NDA alliance coming to power after 2014 polls generated more heat on Tuesday with Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray slamming the BJP leader while differences within key ally JD(U) on the issue also came to the fore.

New York: Despite unfavourable consequences like imprisonment or loss of relationships, cocaine addicts may continue their habit because their brain circuits responsible for predicting emotional loss are impaired, says a study.

Patna: With poll surveys indicating increase in seats for the BJP-led NDA under its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in 2014 polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday dismissed such surveys based on small samples and said those were nothing more than "entertainment programmes".

The internal bickering among the senior BJP and NDA leaders over the post of Prime Minister has given sleepless night to the saffron party leaders in the poll bound states where the prestige of the party is at the stake.

New Delhi: The Congress will soon constitute a high-level committee to examine why it failed to get the expected results in the Lok Sabha polls in Punjab, the party's first exercise to set its house in order after the poll debacle.

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is in neck-and-neck race with BJP for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi while BJP-Shiv Sena combine has a clear edge in Maharashtra, a pre-poll survey predicted.

Barasat: Used to pulling things out of thin air and making entire buildings vanish, magician PC Sorcar Jr would be hoping he has a trick up his sleeve to get voters to crown him in this constituency where he faces, among others, two doctors, as many school teachers and also a carpenter.